The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 19, 1923, Page 18

BY LEO H. LASSEN how good is Floyd Johnson, the former Coast boy, over big in New York rings? This is the question that Tommy Gibbons che when the clever St. dis Square Garden. Reports of the recent Bill Brennan-Johnson setto di Some of the experts at the ringside wed a world of improvement settle Paul heavyweight boxes Johr will said that Johnson THE SEATTLE STAR om Gibbons Will Be Great Ring Test for Floyd Johnson Henry rrell's Others, among whom was otherwise, Judging from F y who is going about as clas a heavyweight Yo on for fandom in Brennan veems, has taken si th Sealey tin war horse that fought Jack Dempse There are some tough babie threat. There's the Wills; Harry Greb dian, Jess Willard ffered after the Billy i vurg M wi veteran looked fine and the Pittsl remarks con in line unbiased bout Johns L. Farrell, an after Hector iderable w it the ung and y a couple of 0 the colored meet new heav iske; the ndmill; and even the venerab! critic, said champion, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928. They say Johnson has on why do with his right when ha mixed And ame time. Johnson he terrible the improved he has come with William Farmer with Frank kicked the tar the if Johnson gets by the St Harry Gibbons won't be test Paul boy for Johnson he will he final le come in the heavyweight circle developed a good left, but doesn’t out know what to and bounds, because Meehan in Seattle a year or so ago he looked of him in Tacoma about , for Greb beat Gibbons, but gained a world of prestige AST OUTFIELD PLAY WILL FEATURE COAST LEAGUE THIS YEAR T)EMINISCENCES 0 D-ED le, tk 20 Per Cent of Winning Baseball CHAPTER XIX. U OK is at least 20 per cent of winning baseball. The team getting the breaks usually wins the close iy teams, of course, make their own breaks, but Lady . Luck plays a mighty important role in every ‘sport and in baseball in particular. I'll never forget a game in Keokuk, when | Swas catching for the home team against the ‘ Chicago Onwards, a crack independent outfit. me They had a brother battery, “Doc” and Char- ee ley Ingram. Charley, the catcher, came to the Sa eplate in the ninth inning with the score 7-4 Sin our favor and with the bases loaded. He crashed the ball to right center and it should have been held to a two-base blow. But the ball rolled to the fence and went right thru a small hole, just about big enough for the ball to get thru. It cost us the igame. Remember “Stonewall” Bill Jackson, who used to play first base for Seattle in 19 a high fly at the James st. park one day and it lit on top of the right field fence, bouncing back into incident that comes to mind occurred in Min- in which Lady Luck played a big part. We were 2-1, and men were on second and third. I hit a grounder to second base. iy Hart was pitching for Omaha that day and he was! ally out of position at the end of every pitch. If he| ‘been standing in the box he would have trapped the ple kept on rolling thru the diamond, the short- the second sacker getting their signals mixed} er went after the ball in time to flag me at first. is scored and the game was ours. Dugdale will tell about umpiring in the early days. BILLY EVANS big lead and fell an easy victim for} HE hidden-ball play | Pine. ‘The trick play saved the| game. i pot regarded a|"" ioston played the Tigers the fol- sportsmaniike bY jiowing day. Ball players don't like many of our leading | to be caught by the hidden-ball trick. experts on baseball. |The Red Sox “razzed” Pinelli from the The hidden-ball/pench for his “bush stuff" as they play must be classed | calied it. in the category of| “Don't get chesty. I'll probably get tricks. Therefore! one of you boys before the day is ‘and proper that I credit ” replied Pinelti of Cincinnat! with pull-| Never before have I seen two ma- itrickiest play—it would be | jor league players the victims of the | if I said plays—I ever | hidden-ball trick on successive days. ‘the ball feld. Pinel! tells me that he has pulled | ne ago the Carlisle In-/|the hidden-ball trick from one to a oy the hidden-ball trick im | dozen times every year since he has gil against Harvard. Receiving | been in baseball. the Carlisle interference | = for the runner with the ball! TOMORROW—The most sensa- behind the interference, the | tional play I ever who had received the kickoff | tk the ball under the back of the att una cme back of KEEN FIGHTS | been provided to retain the | | TENNIS TEAM their arms to thetr side raced down the field toward ‘OMPETITION for places on the Washington varsity tennis team goal. The Crimson play- will be unusually keen this spring, unable to dope it out. Dil- the length of the field for a “hd las Fletcher, Johnson and Art Lang-| i Next year the rules committee | lie, 1922 veterans, are returning and| Hated against the hidden-ball/a host of crack frosh are eligible. ‘It no longer bas @ place in the! Bruce Hesketh, Armand Marton, Joe Livengood and Windy Langtie, one of the best frosh net squads | Washington ever had, hot fight to As the Pacific conference tennis meet is to be held here this spring, |more than ordinary interest in var. jsity tennis is being manifested now in| — “ PREP CAGERS | CLASHING IN | eter ce anew | BIG BATTLES) Bam Rice, one of the best | 1 second round of prep basket- | Funners in the game, was on | ball games were being played| Washington needed his run. | today. umpiring the bases. The| Queen Anne was tangling with infield held several confer-| Garfield on the hill floor. with the Tiger pitcher. In| Lincoln way entertaining the Bal Way Pinelli got possession of | lard quintet at Lincoln. | ball. 1 would never have known| Broadway and Franklin were mix- Pinelli not tipped me off as| ing at Broadway. "went by. Rice took his usual; West Seattle and Roosevelt were | | clashing at Roosevel!: | | Second teams wer | first-team strugs! j starting at 3:20, wu sport. action has several times been d relative to the hidden-ball dm baseball, but no action has ‘been taken to abolish it. Play being legal, Pinelli, who the championship on pulling m ball, must be given due for the clever manner he pulls tt. who played such a star | at third for Cincinnati tast| was with Detroit when I saw | Pull the trickiest play I ever will make a| win regular berths * preceding the | with the tifts | JUS. NAVY YARD ‘Dake Vast Mtoamors at Colman Dock “9 REGULAR SCHEDULE Leave FIVE PLAYERS GO FOR STAR} Five players and a bundle of cash were turned oy Milwaukee for Glenn Myatt, crack catcher, by Cleve- | atcher Shinault, Pitchers | Pott, Outfielder MeNulty and another player, yet to be named, go to the Brewers, DEVLIN WILL ACT AS COACH | Word comes from the Kast that Art Fletcher, new manager of the Phila- delphia Quakers, has promised to take on Art Devlin, coach of the Phillies this season. Devlin played third for the Giants when Vletcher was pas- timing at shortstop. ivy Yard Rou Colman Dock Main 2005 | Hendryx jthe |K | tleally All Clubs to Present Good Trios "Seattle Indians Are Well ed for Outfield Ma- terial; How Others Look ERY club in 6 Coast league lining up good utfield forces or the 1923 race. | Seattle, with Billy Lane and Brick Eldred as the nucleus, have romine of a ard the Philadelphia Nationals. big league usefulness. Besides thie pair Harry Wol- Ray Rohwer, « ned from Pittehur the pinch-nitting and Barney, star San Francisco has a wi good outfielders, They lose Jimmy O'Connell but have Pete Compton, [Joe Kelly, Gene Vaiia, Tim Hendrys, | Charley See ts and Tom Conno & slugger and ¢ from the American association, | while Connolly played tn the Inter math i league last year | Salt Lake has two of the beat fly chasers in the league in Paul Strand | and Duffy Lewis, both tremendous hitters. Then they have’the veteran | Joe Witholt and a youngster named Bob Kinsella They may land Pete pton from San Franctaco. PORTLAND STRONG Portland wilt have nice strength tn the outfield. Dick Cox, Leroy Groomett,, Ike Wolfer and Charley High are the holdovers, while Jew King comes from the New York Gtanta, Oakland will have the same outfit that the Acorns had last season, with the exception of Don Brown, who ts with a Texas league club. Claude Cooper, the speed burner, the ter rible-tempered Mr. Wilie, Ted Cather, veteran Frank Schulte and « flock of youngsters make up their squad Sacramento needs new strength The Solons have the speedy Merlin Kopp, the slugger, Buddy Ryan, young Schinkle, a fellow named Harry Brown from the Mint league and a flock of youngsters. L. A. NEEDS MORE STRENGTH Los Angeles also expects to make some changes before the season starts. The Angels will have Wally Hood, with Seattle last year; Dixie Carroll COIN FOR BY HENRY L. FARRELL | i NJEW YORK, Jan. 19.— Tommy Gibbons notified the boxing com mission today with an official chal | lenge and a certified check for $2.600 that he wants to meet Jack Demp-| |sey for the heavyweight champton-| | ship. It ie the way of the rules to get action out of the champion. The books say that a titleholder must accept a challenger within 60 days, The rules, however, do not always work, As Harry Wills still has a very formal looking challenge in the com mission's vault Gibbons is confident he will beat Floyd Johnson tn Madison Square Garden when they get together in | March, and he wants to be tn a post |tion then to have Dempsey ready to | talk to him. There seema to be little question $ peeciiesesienren Saved From Minors Hank Gowdy, the veteran Boston catcher, will pastime for Gowdy waa saved from the minors by the Quakers as he has just about outlived his Gowdy's greatest claim to fame was his wonderful playing in the 1914 world’s series. AR oct s og & TOMMY GIBBONS PUTS UP DEMPSEY BOUT that the winner of the Gibbons John. son bout will get to Dempsey eventu- ally Tex Rickard plans to put Gibbons on early in the rummer with Demp ney if he wins, but if Johnson wins Tex may have to steam him up with another bout, perhaps with Luts Firpo All the wind seams to have escaped from the Jeas Willard balyhoo. Such a TOW Wan raised by the attempts to rk up another match that Rickard hae passed up the proposition, for the time being Willard lost what few he bad in the boxing ranks n he refused to meet either Tom ibbons or 1 Johnson for the charity fund. Willan fered 5,000, but declined to meet either Ibbons and Johnson then signed to om the card for $15,000 each. at least friends w ke who should have a better season this year; Clarence Twombly, Buster Mc © youngsters. Red jefer in gunning for more out field strength. Vernon may need another outfield er. The Tigers have no new men in line so far, listing Ping Bodie, Nelnon Hawks, Hughie High and Chet Chad. bourne ax holdovers. If Rohwer lives up to expectations and if Barney plays the ball he tw capable Seattle won't have to play second fiddle to any of the Coasters when it comes to outfield. ors Ted Krache, the sensational Taco ma boxer, ts due in Seattle before long. Seattle fans mach about him that hi over big here. He has had great saccess around the Grays Harbor die. | triet, } PADGETT AND SIMONICH IN | UTTE, Jan. 19.—Cowboy Padgett, |°* T*e*® show of Dolores, Colo, and Joe Simon in the main event of a ring card| Zwesdey I, will be the here last night. A disagreement be-| cisions. tween judges resulted in thelr verdict | being a draw i If a victory was earned, it unques tlonably was Padgett's, He did prac. of the ading Padgett | lived up to his reputation as a slam. bang mixer, but was unable to score except at infighting, he showed to a decided advantage. Neither boy was in toubie at ay, MORGAN JONES stage of the mill Simonich started fast after the} BEATS KRACHE first round, which was even, and} ‘TACOMA, Jan. 19.—Ted Krache, took a shade in the » nd seesion. | Hoquiam battler, lost his first start The third, fourth, fifth and sixth! in 21 tights here last night, Morgan rounds were even and ability to keep | Jones getting the verdict. Jones left Padgett at a distance gave Simont handed his way to victory venth, Padg Billy Young, of Vancouve loose in the eighth and ninth fr beat CI of with a powerful attack on the short} Chuck Hellman, Portland feather: ribs and wind, painting the local! weight, trimmed Ludwig Jones, of boy's sides a deep crimson. Both} tacoma in the other principal bouts. boxers tried for a sleep producer in mnend “ the 10th, but neither could put it| over. | Padgett carried a shade of the 11th, and after a whirlwind session of slugging in the final round, 8i-| gon monich was given a shade, a and one, but enourh to even| contr unts, with three rounds edit of each boy and six Jimmy Rive now in New ¢ Dan Balt and Lonnie At When Fred Zwickey Harms clash in the and Billy semi-windap A meet two close de Olympia in trying to land Dode Her nson there again all Ny Wright gets tt here Tuesday chanc Jimmy Duffy being brought up from ahaa Oakland to fight Billy B. C., and URBAD Unt will try ¢ Tw fi Jan. 19, — Seven | of Illinois baseball players it in the majors ext sen have already signed up others have b offered | sts when college ends for the Harry McCurdy, Paul , Clifford Jackson and Don | n will report to the St. Lout Padgett and his manager, “Reck-| Nationals; Dick Relchie to the Bow | lens Ray” Alvis, leave in the morn-| ton Americans; Tom McCann to De-} Ing tor Seattle, where Padgett facen| trott, and Otto H. Vogel to the Cnt the BIN Wright Tuesday | cago Cubs 3 night. to the « even. JOTE RAY AGAIN NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—-Officials of New York amateur athletic clubs will ask the central A. A. U. registration committee to reconsider its action in| in 1 Warner is to take charge suspending Jole Ray, star distance | of football at Stanford and Suther SUTHERLAND 0 PITT PITTSBURG, Jan. 19—Dr. Jack! nd, football coach at Lafay will succeed Glen Warner aa} at the University of Pittsburg | First Star Ball Meet on Feb. 16 [ees tea meee Junior Baseball | called for the night of Febr ‘The Star The Star ue will be ary 16, at Teams planning to play in the ciroult, the largest league in the Northwest, should to get a line on their outfits for the year. Pre Mminary p) will be discussed at the first meeting The season will start about the » ond week In April, ar in April, May and June bo «taged during July Plans for making the league big or thin year now in the making and players should’ follow partment for announc will be made from tin now on finals will cer and better than ¢ are “nd managers this de. monte whieh ¢ to time from MEN’S SHOE SALE THE HAMILTON 3 THIRD AVENUE Dempsey: Willard | ! . Huskies | Victors, 37 to 36 “Windy” Crawford Scores 25 of Washington Cage Points Against Champs | By Leo H. Lassen LAYING the game of his life, Indiana May Halt Racing INDIANAPOLIS, Jan, 19.—~The state senate Thureday voted, 38 to 9, to prob ° mob way or held annually iy motor speed. GILBERT WILL LEAD PELICANS Larry G has been nam veteran outfielder, manager of the New the Southern league ny Dobbs, who goe: Memphis, Gilbert has been a big ar for years in the Southern loop but fell down when he was given « chance with the Cleveland Indi SUMMA TO BE REGULAR NOW Howard the hard-hitting tfielder Texas league, whi nhed the n in grand style for « figured for the will be { Orleans team tn eoding Job Washing ton guard, potnts | f, and led rpie and 4 hoop team | ® glorious 3 Aaho sma, the ve at y gym last himsel: 4 goaln, | — wove trem" £8". COLLINS TO BE mance word against Alex Fox the & wonderful It was the fart Idaho team ket med forward Crawfo: wtar of John ¢ slated t ton Red this year veteran outfielder, ts am captain of the Bos: under Frank Chance Sox @ lone ts final wh Fox had two hots at the basket from the floor, The Idaho leader was plainly nervous | and nettled at the persistent guard ing of Cr 1 | Fox showed bh ane at the foul | like line, shooting 14 of 17 tries. and Fighting Dick Hyland The game was rough, « total of 39 | been staged to stage a three-round foule being called by Referee Stan | bout here January 23, It will be part Riddle, Chuck Frankland and|of an American Legion card. Hy Thompson, rival centers, both had/ land now ts « member of the Fresno to leave the game with four personal | fire department. fouls called on them. | WASHINGTON STARTS FAST Colo, Jan. 19.—The Washington took the lead right off Western leagte franchise the bat, ringing up eight pointe be-| will not be sold, Milton L. Anfenger, fore Idaho got started. When the|one of the owners, declared tn deny firet half ended, Washington held a|ing reports the club ownership would seven-point lead, being out in front |be transferred to two Wichita Falls, 22 to 16. Texas, off men At the start of the second only HYLAND VS. NELSON BNO, Cal, Jan. 19. 4 times. Battling FR Sounds i « velaon have half Idaho started a powerful offensive, | netting eight points, which put them | in the lead by one point Then Washington forged lead again, But YANKS REPORT EARLY NEW YORK, Jan, 19.—-Babe Ruth, Wally Schang, Wally Pipp, Whitey to the| Witt and Joe Dugan have been or- Idaho came back, | dered by the Yankee management to and the score wan 34.34. The |report with the battery men at Hot Varnity forged the lead once | Springs the last week of February to more, and went off the floor « win-' start training. ner by one point H Idaho plays Oregon in Oregon Fri day night and then plays O. A. A at Goryallis Monday Idaho and Washington play a re turn game in Moscow before the end of the season | WASHINGTON LOOKS STRONGER | » Washington team looked stronger than last year, with Dick | Frayne adding @ lot of power to the |team. Chuck Frankland, at center, |ient & brilliant performer | a steady old warhorse and more aggressive than H | was last season, | The lineus LIN | inte » and sumn P AND SUMMARY Washington Lewis (e) Frayne Prankian | Crawror ‘Thompson Teitord : Gartin © by periods i Washington 22 1637 Idaho 16 $136 Washington —— Field Frayne 2, Frankland 1 3: tree throws, Idaho Field ni, Fiteke I. Telford 2 tin 1, & free throws, Fox 14 out of 1% ington Idal ards f Herketh Viteke for u Tubby Knudeor FROSH WIN University of team Washington defeated 7, im the cur jaho- Washington St | gam night, Fifteen work dollars wonders are in SHOE CO. wool, union made, roomy! really great way. Reduced to in (near MARION) Real Shoe Sale ALL OES $15.00 [-— meneame OPEN A GATELY VENL ) TERMS BE REDUCED ARRANGED 0% to 25% Sale Ends January 31 runner, 40 days for competing in an land has been signed to a three-year unsanctioned match. contract. A 1427 Between Pike BOSTON PILOT | going buying Overcoat here tomorrow. We've a splendid selection of fine all- Extra w: every Mets Play — Calgary in Big Melee Seattle Opens Prairie In- vasion in North Tonight; Maroons vs. Cougars HE Beattie Metro politang will open thelr invasion of the prairie to night, battling the Calgary Tt gers on the Cal- wary ice. The Mets will be at their top strength for to night's game, while it t# doubt. ful if Bill Binney © Captain Gardi. ner will be ready yet for the ‘Ti ‘Camary team plays hard hockey and 1* @ good defensive out- fit, but the Clagary outfit isn’t a very good scoring team. Edmonton and Regina are figured to give the Mets thetr herdest rub ]in the North. The Mets meet Ed- | montan Monday, Saskatoon Wednes- day and Regina Frida | MAROONS vs. | COUGARS ‘The Vancouver Maroons and the Victoria Cougars will be battling in | Victoria tonight, The Maroons have &@ nice lead in the Coast race and it jooks like the big battle the rest of the way in this Joop will be the fight between Victoria and Seattle for the other playoff place. Victoria will be handicapped tonight by the loss of Frank Frederickson. thelr star cen- ter, who ts out of the game, recov- ering from af operation. SOMETHING NEW NEXT WEEK Something new will be tn store for Seattle hockey fans next week when the Victoria and Vancouver teams meet here at the Arena Wednesday. 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